Bedrock's official addon and script APIs let you add content, but can hardly modify core gameplay. Custom servers like PocketMine and Nukkit offer that control, but sacrifice vanilla features.

It's official! Mojang has announced the new Minecraft game update Chaos Cubed will be released next month on 16th June 2026. It introduces the passive mob Sulfur cubes. Here's a bit about them from ...

The recently announced Minecraft Fall Drop 2026 will feature a new Poplar wood set. This wood set comes with new Poplar trees that will generate in the new Dappled Forest biome. During the livestream, ...

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The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

The LEGO Minecraft line keeps expanding its fun and perfect blocky universe with yet another buildable mob straight from the game's most iconic encounters. The Skeleton brings one of Minecraft's ...

After 15 long years of waiting, multiplayer finally received a much-needed upgrade for the Java Edition of Minecraft. Thanks to the handy friends list feature, playing with friends is finally easy to ...

Mojang is currently working on the next major Minecraft content update, Chaos Cubed, and that means public testing is ongoing via the snapshot system. The latest update to the Minecraft Java Edition ...

Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...

During Minecraft Live today, Mojang announced Minecraft Dungeons II. The sequel to 2020’s dungeon-crawler is set for release this fall on all major platforms–as well as Game Pass–and people can start ...

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The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...